Engelbart for Hall of Fame

Engelbart for Hall of Fame

Monday 21 February 2005 12.37 EST
First published on Monday 21 February 2005 12.37 EST

"More than a decade before there were personal computers, Douglas Engelbart showed the world the future. On Dec. 9, 1968, when a computer was the size of a room, Engelbart and his team of researchers unveiled personal computing workstations that could talk to each other. Users from anywhere in the world could access and work on the same document," reports the Mercury News.

"On that day, Engelbart officially gave birth to the mouse, e-mail, video conferencing and even hyperlinks (the links used to navigate the World Wide Web). He holds more than 25 patents. For his pioneering vision, Engelbart, 80, is being inducted into the Silicon Valley Engineers Hall of Fame Wednesday."